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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

This gives me a bit of hope when it comes to butterfly conservation. Because they have such short generation times, even small conservation steps can make a big difference and we can see populations bounce back. Photo: Chris Light , CC BY-SA] Supporting policies that benefit conservation can also help.

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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

170 billion each year, according to AmeriCorps, the federal agency focused on national and community service. Alexis de Tocquevillea French philosopher and diplomat who arrived in the United States in 1831 to study the new nations penal systemwas so impressed by the scale of volunteering in the U.S. Love gardening?

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How The Nature Conservancy’s Work in the Cumberland Forest Supports Jobs & Climate Mitigation

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Andrew Tingley, Director of Communications at The Nature Conservancy. At The Nature Conservancy , one of the world’s largest environmental nonprofits, we have examined a huge range of nature’s benefits throughout our 70-year history. When you think about nature, what comes to mind? © Cameron Davidson; May 2019.

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These 5 simple ideas could fix our food system

Fast Company Tech

The idea that we should focus on big factors gives us the license to relax a little. Every country could have a proper land use framework to achieve the right balance between agricultural productivity, conservation, and regeneration. They only eat what they have gathered that day. We all know this, even if we choose to look away.

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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And the current estimated national value of each volunteer hour is $29.95 (Independent Sector). Let’s do the math and make a conservative estimate. For an organization like Habitat for Humanity, an application may reveal that one volunteer is a licensed electrician and another volunteer enjoys carpentry as a hobby. More than 10.4

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Dark Sky alternatives for Android weather watchers

The Verge

In fact, you can set its personality (friendly, snarky, homicidal, or overkill) and its politics (liberal, conservative, centrist, libertarian, communist, or apolitical) to suit your own tastes. This simple app goes to the source: the National Weather Service, run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Vibrant Planet raises $17M seed round to grow forest restoration SaaS

TechCrunch

The company sells Land Tender via per-seat licenses aimed primarily at land managers who work for federal agencies — think Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and so on — as well as stakeholders who have interests in the lands they oversee.

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